Exhibiting device for coins.



PATENTED NOV. 12, 1 907.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28. 1907.

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EXHIBITING DEVICE FOR COINS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1907.

Application filetl June 28' 1907- Serial No. 381,361.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARCHER M. I'IUNTINGTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at 1083 Fifth avenue, New York city, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Exhibiting Devices for Coins, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide an exhibition coin-holder which will permit the observer to carefully scrutinize both sides and the edges of a coin without permitting the handling of the same, thus guarding. against theft or accidental misplacoment of a coin. p

In carrying out my invention I make use of tubes of transparent material, preferably of glass, and provide means for holding or supporting a coin with its axis at right angles to the axis of the tube, so that the coin will occupy a position tangential to a circle of less radius than the tube itself. Such supporting means are preferably transparent in order to allow the examination of the underside of the coin. I prefer to use transparent celluloid as the transparent support which may be inserted after the coin has been inserted, and in view of its own resiliency will expand to hold the coin in place. 7

The scope of my invention will be pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a cabinet or case containing improved coin-holding tubes constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig.' 2 is a section on line 2-2 Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the coin-holding tube and its opening parts; Fig. 5 is a transverse section of a coin and tube illustrating the manner of supporting the coin therein; and Fig. 6 is a partial plan view of a coin, tube and supporting means.

As shown in the drawings, I make use of an ordinary exhibition case having a bottom 1, a vertical front 2 and vertical back 3 and provided with a cover frame 4 carrying a glass plate 5 and hinged by hinges G to the vertical back 3.

Adjacent to the vertical front 2 I locate a wooden block 7 drilled to receive the shank 14 of a handle or finger piece 17, to be described hereinafter.

Adjacent to the rear vertical wall 3 of the case 1 locate a wooden block or strip Shaving U-shaped openings 9 therein, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

A cylindrical tube 10 of clear, flawless glass is secured by a rubber band 12 placed around one end within a cap 13 of metal. The cap is centrally threaded to receive the shank 14 of the fingerpiece 17. Coins 15 are inserted within the tube so as to have their axes at right angles to the axis of the tube, and then sheets 16 of transparent celluloid of less diameter than the tube are inserted between the coins and the tube, and in view of the resilient structure of the celluloid it will expand and hold the coins in the position illustrated in Figs. 3, 5 and 6. At the same time the celluloid being transparent will permit the coins to be viewed on that side adjacent to the transparent support. A cork 1] may close the end of the tube to prevent entrance of moisture, dust, and the .like. Such tube with the finger piece 17 removed may be inserted within the case by sliding its corked end into one of the U-shaped openings 9 and bringing the aperture in the cap 13 opposite the opening through the vertical front 2 and wooden filling piece 7, so that the shank 14 may be threaded into the cap and thus engage and support the same. The cover of the case is then shut down and preferably locked. In this position one desiring to examine the coin need only take hold of that finger piece of the tube which supports the coin which it is desired to inspect, and by turning the finger piece, any side of the coin may be brought into view.

What I claim is:

1. An exhibiting device for coins and the like compris ing a transparent tube, bearings in which it is mounted to turn on its axis, and transparent means within the tube for holding a coin fixed in place in the interior of said tube with its axis at right angles to the axis of said tube so that the entire surface of both sides of said coin may be visible by rotating said tube.

2. An exhibiting device for coins and the like, consisting 01? a transparent tube, a coin therein, a supporting means for the coin consisting of transparent resilient material tending to press the coin at right angles to the axis of the tube, bearings for said tube whereby said tube may be rotated in said bearings.

3. An exhibiting device for coins or the like consisting of a transparent tube of glass, :1 coin therein, a transparent resilient sheet of celluloid within said tube folded with its edges toward each other, a portion of said celluloid pressing against the surface of the coin, axial supports for said tube at both its ends, a case containing said supports and tube and a finger piece secured to the tube and extending without the case whereby the tube may be rotated from outside the case.

Signed at New York, N. Y. this 2Gth day of June 1907.

ARCHER M. HUNTINGTON.

Witnesses 2 DANA AMASA Rosn, MIANSFIELD L. HILLHOUSE. 

